ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard Review

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 SATA III 6Gbps Performance

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

The SATA III 6Gbps Testing was done using a Corsair Force GT 240GB Solid State Drive.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard was able to hit an average Sequential read of 508.6MB/s and a Sequential Write of 305.5MB/s. The Sequential Read of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme is 8.7MB/s faster than the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7 while the Sequential Write is only .9MB/s faster. The 4K Reads of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme and the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7 were only .22MB/s apart with the Rampage IV Extreme coming out on top with 33.88MB/s. The 4K Write speed of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme was nearly 35MB/s faster than the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes
many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting,
folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file
benchmark.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS Rampage IV Extreme was able to hit 506.1MB/s Average Read and 475.7MB/s Average Write in HD Tune 4.61. These scores put it just ahead of the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7 which was able to hit an Average Read of 500.8MB/s and an Average Write of 466.2MB/s.